Public Health

UH Bristol NHS Foundation Trust retains ‘Outstanding’ rating from CQC

16.08.19: University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has once again been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). UH Bristol became the first trust in the country to go from ‘Requires Impro...

Government announces £25m Brexit medicines ‘express freight service’

15.08.19: In the event of a No Deal Brexit, the Government has announced the setting up of a high-speed train service to ferry medicine to the UK from France. A £25m contract has been announced by government ministers for an ‘express frei...

The Power of Language in Childbirth and Parenting

06.08.19: While maternal and infant health in the UK is better than many parts of the world, one sector of our community is being left behind. Helena Nikiel talks to Sarah Todhunter about her work with Polish Antenatal Classes.   There are clearl...

New non-executive Board members at Health Education England

05.08.19: Health Education England has welcomed the Government announcement of new non-executive directors (NEDs) to its board to provide independent advice, support and scrutiny, and work with senior officials on key policy decisions. The appointees...

£12m made available to SMEs for Healthy Ageing Challenge fund

05.08.19: UK Research and Innovation is looking for UK registered equity investors to form partnerships with them for a ‘Healthy Ageing Investment Accelerator’ scheme. The accelerator aims to deliver innovation to the ‘healthy agein...

Scottish Government to provide £32m to help cut NHS waiting times

26.07.19: The NHS will receive a further £32m from the Scottish Government to help reduce waiting times, the cabinet health secretary Jeane Freeman has announced. The funds are in addition to the £70m funding announced in April and b...

NHS Providers says prevention green paper must be backed by action

24.07.19: Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, has reiterated that if the government is serious in its proposals for prevention and public health that were put forward in the recent green paper, then it will require backing...

Controversial new prevention green paper ‘a step in the right direction’

23.07.19: The long-awaited prevention green paper has been published by the government, including a host of policies targeting ill-health such as proposals tackling smoking, drinking and poor diets. The ‘Advancing our health: prevention in...

London surgeons launch charity to support separation of conjoined twins

18.07.19: Two surgeons behind a life-changing separation of a set of craniopagus conjoined twins at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital have launched a new charity to support similar pioneering operations in the future. Gemini Untwined w...

NHS trusts, councils and police to tackle serious crime under ‘public health duty’

15.07.19: NHS trusts, local authorities and police forces will all be required to work together to tackle serious violence under the new ‘public health duty’. Unveiled by home secretary Sajid Javid in response to a sharp spike in kni...

HM The Queen officially opens Royal Papworth Hospital

09.07.19: Her Majesty The Queen has officially opened the new Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge today (9 July). During her visit, HM The Queen met with staff and patients and was shown some of the state-of-the-art facilities at the leadi...

RCGP welcomes HPV vaccine roll-out to Year 8 boys in September

09.07.19: Chair of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, has welcomed the announcement that the HPV vaccine will now be given to Year 8 boys from September in further efforts to protect against the virus. Health offici...

Great Western Hospitals exceed national targets for sepsis treatment

08.07.19: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has hit national targets in the timely identification and treatment of sepsis in its Emergency Department and other areas of the hospital. There is a national target that requires all sepsis pati...

Peers call for NHS-style free social care system and an extra £8bn to tackle funding crisis

04.07.19: The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has challenged the two Tory leadership candidates to create an NHS-style free service in response to rapidly rising demand in social care. Peers including former Conservative and Labour chancell...

NICE endorses UK Sepsis Trust’s screening and action tools

04.07.19: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has endorsed the screening and action tools created by the UK Sepsis Trust (UKST). Director of the system engagement programme at NICE, Nicola Bent said: “UKST’s...